The Balkan Route : Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput

Florian Riedler

ISBN 10: 3110616823 / ISBN 13: 9783110616828

Edité par De Gruyter, De Gruyter, 2021

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istanbul with Belgrade. After this route that diagonally crosses Southeast Europe had been established in Roman times, it was as important for the Byzantines as the Ottomans to rule their Balkan territories. In the nineteenth century, the road was upgraded to a railroad and, most recently, to a motorway. The contributions in this volume focus on the period from the Middle Ages to the present day. They explore the various transformations of the route as well as its transformative role for the cities and regions along its course. This not only concerns the political function of the route to project the power of the successive empires. Also the historical actors such as merchants, travelling diplomats, Turkish guest workers or Middle Eastern refugees together with the various social, economic and cultural effects of their mobility are in the focus of attention. The overall aim is to gain a deeper understanding of Southeast Europe by foregrounding historical continuities and disruptions from a long-term perspective and by bringing into dialogue different national and regional approaches.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Balkan Route : Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput
• Éditeur: De Gruyter, De Gruyter
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3110616823
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783110616828
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 160 H x 24 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 24 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 579 grammes

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Synopsis

This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istanbul with Belgrade. After this route that diagonally crosses Southeast Europe had been established in Roman times, it was as important for the Byzantines as the Ottomans to rule their Balkan territories. In the nineteenth century, the road was upgraded to a railroad and, most recently, to a motorway. The contributions in this volume focus on the period from the Middle Ages to the present day. They explore the various transformations of the route as well as its transformative role for the cities and regions along its course. This not only concerns the political function of the route to project the power of the successive empires. Also the historical actors such as merchants, travelling diplomats, Turkish guest workers or Middle Eastern refugees together with the various social, economic and cultural effects of their mobility are in the focus of attention. The overall aim is to gain a deeper understanding of Southeast Europe by foregrounding historical continuities and disruptions from a long-term perspective and by bringing into dialogue different national and regional approaches.

À propos de l?auteur

Florian Riedler, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany; Nenand Stefanov, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany